Staff Profile

Career Summary

Biography

Professor Roger Markwick joined The University of Newcastle in 2001, lecturing in modern European history, specialising in modern Russian and Soviet history. He is Head of the School of Humanities and Social Science.

Markwick was awarded his PhD in 1995 by the University of Sydney, where he was a Postdoctoral Fellow and Senior Research Associate.

He is the author of Rewriting History in Soviet Russia: The Politics of Revisionist Historiography 1956-74 (Palgrave Macmillan 2001), which won The Alexander Nove Prize in Russian, Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies in 2001. He also co-authored, with Graeme Gill, of Russia’s Stillborn Democracy? From Gorbachev to Yeltsin (Oxford University Press, 2000). More recently, Markwick co-authored, with Euridice Charon-Cardona, Soviet Women on the Frontline in the Second World War (Palgrave Macmillan 2012).

Markwick is currently undertaking an Australian Research Council (ARC) supported project on ‘Women, Stalinism, and the Soviet Home Front, 1941-45’, in collaboration with Prof. Dr. Beate Fieseler, Heinrich-Heine-Universität, Düsseldorf.

His additional research and teaching interests are in the nature of fascism; the Jewish Holocaust; Israel and the Middle East; colonial settler states; intellectuals, historiography and the politics of knowledge.

Qualifications

PhD, University of Sydney, 27/10/1995

Master of Arts, University of Melbourne

Bachelor of Arts, Australian National University

Diploma in Education, University of Melbourne

Research

Research keywords

Russian and Soviet history

fascism

historiography

women and war

Research expertise

Focus Area: History

Languages

Russian

Fields of Research

Code

Description

Percentage

210399

Historical Studies Not Elsewhere Classified

70

219999

History And Archaeology Not Elsewhere Classified

15

160699

Political Science Not Elsewhere Classified

15

Memberships

Body relevant to professional practice.

Member - Australasian Association of European Historians

Appointments

IntReader (expert reader of high international standing)Australian Research Council (Australia)

01/01/2006

Awards

Research Award.

2003

Alexander Nove Prize for Russian and East European Studies for 2001 British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies (United Kingdom)International prize awarded annnualy for outstanding research in Russian and East European Studies

Invitations

'We will never get to the front': Soviet Women under Arms in the Great Fatherland War, 1941-45University of Duesseldorf, Germany (Invited Presenter)

Markwick RD, 'Thaws and freezes in Soviet historiography, 1953-64', The Dilemmas of De-Stalinization: negotiating cultural and social change in the Khrushchev era, Routledge, London 173-192 (2006) [B1]

Markwick RD, 'Letter in response to review of Rewriting History in Soviet Russia: The Politics of Revisionist Historiography in the Soviet Union, 1956-1974', ( pp.234-235): American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, Inc. (2002) [C3]